Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all

A) These days my memory is awfully messing up with me and reminding me of the oldest most random and irrelevant pieces of information I have acquired all along these years of my life and I have become super sensitive to any memory stimulus.

B) These days there is a number of rallies going on in several countries against COVID mandates, hosting dozens of people complaining how mandatory vaccination and face masks are violating their right of what they can do to their body. Honestly, I was not the biggest fan of these campaigns as I do not think freedom is able to justify everything. However, last night I was talking to a friend's friend and he changed my mind to some extent about the validity of what they are asking for.

C) Those days (when I was at 2nd grade in elementary school), there was a lesson talking about the colors of a rainbow each arguing about their superiority over the rest. They showed up one by one in the sky and changed the color of the sky to their own and freaked the hell out of the observers. Then a wise thing, possibly an owl or an old cloud, told them about how diversity adds to the beauty and asked them to reveal themselves altogether. Very similar to all stories trying to convey a moral message, everyone was happy with the result then and sang their favorite blissful song together. But I mean that wise piece of something was right. Diversity "can" boost beauty. The oldest version of the elementary book I found dates back to 2012 while I was in that grade in 2006. Below you can find a picture of the lesson.

 

 

p.s: It is removed from the most recent 2nd grade book, maybe because of the Iranian's government inertia against 2SLGBTQ+ community. (There are other possibilities too, like moving the lesson to the third grade, or removing it merely to put some other thing instead)